We’re not locked out of public lands

By Parker Heinlein, Outdoors columnist
16 hrs ago

I found some new country to hunt last week. A large expanse of federal land, it offers limited motorized access. In the short time I spent there I saw grouse, partridge, pheasants, ducks, mule deer and antelope ...

Upon my arrival back at the house, however, I heard Jennifer Fielder, a Republican state senator from Thompson Falls, decrying the dismal state of our federal lands on the Voices of Montana radio show.

Fielder advocates transferring federal public land to the states. Earlier this year she was named CEO of the American Lands Council, a nonprofit organization with the same goal ...

If that sounds like just more malarkey from the woman who supported the moronic yahoos who took over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon, you’re right. Fielder wants you to know how bad things are and how desperately they need to be changed. Forget cheap gas and low unemployment. Forget millions of acres of public land where thousands of Montanans hunt and fish quite contentedly. If you’re content you aren’t listening to enough conservative talk radio. The federal boogeyman is still coming to get you. It’s simply a matter of time ...

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